Selling & Estate Agency

Contact us for a free initial pre-sale market valuation visit at your property, with no obligation, where we can discuss your individual requirements.

 

All our properties for sale are advertisied on our own website and with the ESPC - in their showroom, their weekly ESPC guide and on their own website.  Please click on the ESPC link to see what the ESPC can offer.

 

We offer:

Individually designed glossy sales brochures

Photographs and Slideshow

Floor plans

For Sale Board(s)

Accompanied viewings, if required

Regular updates to you, reporting to you on how your sale is progressing

An efficient and friendly service

 

If you wish more details regarding the selling process or the cost of selling your property, please feel free to request an estimate

 

 

THE SELLING PROCESS

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

 

You have made the decision to sell your property, so what should you do first.  The key issue is PREPARATION and ORGANISATION.

 

1. Is your property ready to market?

If you need to decorate, replace a stained carpet, organise the window cleaner, and, de-clutter, you should consider undertaking what is required before putting your property on the market. 

 

We are happy to visit your property to provide you with a free pre-sale market valuation, so feel free to make an appointment.

 

Once you are ready to market your property, just let us know and we will arrange the following;

(i) a surveyor to undertake the Home Report

(ii) visit your property to prepare the marketing - sales brochures, photographs, and, floor plan

(iii) provide you with a copy of the Property Questionnaire to complete

 

2. On the market?

We will market your property with the ESPC (Edinburgh Solicitor Property Centre), SSPC (Scottish Solicitor Property Centre) and on this website. 

 

Once on the market, be prepared for last minute viewings, so ensure that your property is clean and tidy, ready to be shown to potential buyers.  Once your property is on the market, we will provide you or a chosen professional viewer with a viewing questionnaire, so that potential buyers can complete their contact details at open viewings.  This is essential, so that we can contact the potential buyers after the viewings to obtain feedback (good or bad!) or secure an offer!

 

3. Notes of Interest/Closing Dates?

The usual asking price marketed include Offers Over, Offers Around, Offers in Region, Guide Price and Fixed Price.

Depending upon the amount of interest from potential buyers, interested parties may note interest and as a seller you may consider a closing date.  This is not necessarily the case for all sales.  Where there are no notes of interest and an interested buyer simply submits an offer, it is up to you, the seller, whether or not you wish to accept this offer. 

If a closing date is set, all interested buyers wishing to make an offer will do so by the set time.  As the seller, you may consider these offers but you are not obliged to accept any of the offers.

 

4. Missives?

Whether an individual party has offered or an offer has been accepted at a closing date, the acceptable offer forms part of the contract known as 'the missives'.  The offer will be discussed with you and if the written offer is acceptable with no changes required, the missives can be concluded almost immediately or at least within a few days from receipt of the offer.  Most offers, however, are usually submitted with conditions attached, such as, 'subject to the lender being satisfied with a satisfactory survey report and satisfactory valuation report'.  Where changes need to be made to the written offer, a formal letter known as 'the qualified acceptance', which forms part of the contract, is prepared on behalf of you, the seller, and submitted to the purchasing agents.  Once all the conditions of the missives are accepted by both buyer and seller, the missives can be concluded.  Once missives are concluded, this means that a legally binding contract exists between the buyer and the seller.

 

5. Conveyancing process up to settlement?

Having already obtained your title deeds from either you or your lender, the title deeds will be issued to the purchasing agents to allow them to review the title, i.e. current owner, any existing mortgage(s), title conditions.  The purchasing agents will also require to have sight of any alteration documents, if any, specialist guarantees, if any, search reports or any such documentation relevant to the sale.  During this time, we will also be contacting your lender to request a redemption statement for your present mortgage, secured over the property.  Meetings will also be arranged to obtain various signatures required for settlement and to discuss when you need to vacate the property and arrange for the handover of keys.

 

Once settlement has taken place, we send to your Local Authority notification of the change of ownership in relation to your council tax.  The Local Authority should then contact you direct thereafter.  However, don't forget to arrange final meter readings with your current gas and electricity supplier(s) and arrange any re-direction of mail.